It's Time For Trump To Straighten Up The Border Patrol.

Exclusive: Few Rogue Border Agents Resist Trump Policies

Union leader says some stations continue to follow Obama 'catch and release' directives

by Brendan Kirby | Updated 17 Feb 2017 at 4:59 PM

Some border patrol stations have been slow to carry out President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement executive order and instead have continued former President Barack Obama’s “catch-and-release” policies, according to a union official.

Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, told LifeZette that he raised concerns Thursday with U.S. Border Patrol Chief Ronald Vitiello. He said he is confident that issue soon will be corrected.

“We’re still walking people out the door. The catch-and-release policy is still in place in some sectors.”

But Judd said as recently as Thursday, some border patrol stations were still releasing border-jumpers, often without even issuing notices to appear in immigration court hearings. Obama’s policy was to release anyone claiming to have been living continuously in the United States since before Jan. 1, 2014, if they did not have criminal records or active warrants.

“We’re still walking people out the door,” Judd said. “The catch-and-release policy is still in place in some sectors.”

Judd said it was a minority of sectors that have been resisting Trump’s new directives. He laid the blame at the feet of U.S. Border Patrol managers, not front-line officers.

“This is not the administration’s fault. This is Border Patrol’s fault,” he said. “It varies from sector to sector. Some sectors still are operating under the Obama administration’s policies. And that’s troubling … It’s just been very willy-nilly.”

Asked about the status of Trump’s marching orders, Customs and Border Protection spokesman Carlos Diaz wrote in an email to LifeZette, “CBP has worked towards implementing the measures mandated by the Executive Orders since they were signed.”

Judd said some managers have been waiting for specific written guidelines to filter down from the Department of Homeland Security. He said he considers that unnecessary since the president’s executive order is crystal clear. He said anyone apprehended by border patrol agents should be turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities. That agency and immigration judges are charged with deciding whether someone should be deported.

Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, said she was not aware that the president’s executive order had not been fully implemented three weeks after he issued it.

“It actually surprises me. But if that’s the case, certainly the administration is going to need to look into that if they’re going to be undermined,” she said. “That’s got to be nipped in the bud.”

Vaughan, a former U.S. Foreign Service officer, said it often takes time for new policies to be fully embraced. This especially is true during the transition from one administration to the next, she said, because the outgoing administration often has promoted managers who agree with its policy goals.

She noted that Obama, himself, faced bumps in the road on the way to implementing enforcement directives mandating a lighter hand. She said union officials enforced the letter of their collective bargaining agreement requiring training before new policies are adopted.

“It’s not unusual for people who are in disagreement with change to dig in their heels and take a stand,” she said. “I certainly saw that at the State Department where implementation of law and policies could differ based on the views of different managers and different posts.”

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Joseph Guzzardi, a spokesman for Californians for Population Stabilization, said it was disappointing that some border patrol officials appear not be onboard with the new policies.

"It would be surprising to me because Border Patrol has been hugely in support of Trump when he ran," he said. "I have been down to the border and talked to Border Patrol agents and got the clear impression that they were eager to enforce immigration law."

Judd said he expects a "compete change" after his conversation with Vitiello but added that the policies already should be fully implemented.

"It should not have had to be me who informed him," he said.

Illegal Immigrant Flow Into US Is Not Being Stopped Rather It Is Being Encouraged By This Administration

Border Patrol Agent's Shocking Admission About Obama Amnesty

• 04/13/2016 
• Source: AAN 
• by: AAN Staff

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We've reported for weeks about how lawless Obama's immigration policy is.
When it comes to protecting America's borders, he's chosen to look the other
way, opening the door for drug dealers, terrorists, murderers, rapists, and the
 diseased to come right into America and threaten its hardworking citizens.

How bad has the situation become? Deportations are at a record low, in part
because Obama's amnesty has made it simple for illegals to simply lie about
their status and stay as long as they'd like. The important part is in bold:

Fewer people are being deported now than any other time in the last five

years.

When Homeland Security charges someone with a violation of immigration

law, they give them one of two papers. It’s either a notice to appear or a

notice of referral to an immigration judge.

The people get tracked by the Department of Justice. After that, if the

person is ordered to be removed or if they are granted relief, Homeland

Security takes over again for the next step.

CHANNEL 5 NEWS acquired the latest deportation numbers from

the U.S. Department of Justice. We now know how many people are

leaving the country and who is getting processed the most.

Half of the people caught crossing the border illegally never make it

to an immigration court.

We noticed the numbers are way off. A little more than 187,000 people

were brought to the court for removal proceedings. It’s the majority

of the 199,534 cases received in 2015. But Homeland Security officials

said they caught more than twice that number in 2014 and 2015.

“As long as they claim to be here before 2014, we just let them

go,” said Brandon Judd from the National Border Patrol

Council. “They don't have to prove it. They just have to tell us.”

There's two sets of standards at play here: one for law breaking foreigners,
 and one for every day Americans. Do your civic duty and run a totally legal
 group that opposes Barack Obama's policies, and you'll get a visit from the
IRS and a full cavity search. Come here from a foreign country demanding
 free education, healthcare, and cradle to grave welfare, and you're treated
 like an honored guest.

Obama's America.

 Source: AAN

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Southern Border Is A Seive. Many Illegals Come In And Border Patrol Is Told Not To Arrest Them

Americans along the border say Obama is threatening their lives

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Sam Rolley

To protect American lives from malicious invaders from foreign nations is one of the most basic reasons a federal government was established in the United States. Unfortunately for a growing number of Americans living along the nation’s southern border, Obama administration immigration policies have stripped away any remnant of faith in that protection.

A report published in the Albuquerque Journal last week told of how Obama’s immigration policies, including actively calling on Border Patrol agents to turn a blind eye to illegal crossings, are causing many American border dwellers to live in fear.

And it isn’t the kind of fear that so often—and usually inappropriately— comes up in political debates about immigration.

No, they don’t fear that unskilled Mexican migrants are coming for their jobs. They’re in fear for their lives…

From the report:

Ranchers here have been steaming over the reported kidnapping of a ranch hand in December, when drug runners allegedly hijacked the man’s vehicle, loaded it with narcotics and drove him to Arizona. He came home “roughed up,” his employer Tricia Elbrock said, but he survived the ordeal.

Concerns about border security have simmered for years for those who live among the region’s sprawling ranches and rugged mountain ranges. Sometimes, fears boil over, such as after the unsolved 2010 murder of southern Arizona rancher Robert Krentz, who was found shot dead on his property, or after the recent reported kidnapping.

The border ranchers say that decreased activity along the southern border on the part of the U.S. government is leaving the door wide open for an increase in criminal activity that puts their lives at risk.

“The increase in the number of people in the area that are smuggling people and drugs seems to be increasing,” one rancher noted. “We see a lot less of the people who are looking for a job.”

And it’s not surprising that more criminals are showing up along the border, considering how the Obama administration has tied the hands of the men and women tasked with keeping it safe.

Earlier this year, National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd told lawmakers the Obama administration has ordered immigration agents to release any suspected illegal immigrant who claims to have been in the country since January 2014 without further question.

“Simply put the new policy makes mandatory the release — without a [Notice to Appear] of any person arrested by the Border Patrol for being in the country illegally, as long as they don’t have a previous felony arrest and conviction and as long as they claim to been continuously in the United States since January of 2014,” he said.

Judd said the policy is so open to abuse that the president” might as well abolish our immigration laws altogether.”

And in response to such complaints, Obama Customs and Border Protection Commissioner R. Gil Kerlikowske said that agents who want to protect the nation should quit.

“If you really don’t want to follow the directions of your superiors, including the president of the United States and the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, then you really do need to look for another job,” he said.

And apparently many have.

One New Mexico Border Patrol station, according to the Journal report, “is budgeted for 284 agents but has been short about 50 agents for months.”